37.3378, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Selling War: Critical Approaches to Propaganda and Disinformation in Political and Media Discourses on Contemporary Conflicts

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Date: 15-Oct-2026
From: Ali Basarati [ali.basarati1988 at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Selling War: Critical Approaches to Propaganda and Disinformation in Political and Media Discourses on Contemporary Conflicts


Call for Chapters: Selling War: Critical Approaches to Propaganda and
Disinformation in Political and Media Discourses on Contemporary
Conflicts
Editors:
- Nina Shtok (University of Lodz)
- Mitchell Thomas Welle (Warsaw University of Technology)
- Ali Basarati (VIZJA University)
War has never been confined to the battlefield. Alongside soldiers and
commanders, political and media actors wage a parallel war of words:
constructing enemies, legitimising violence and spreading
(dis)information to win public support. In short, they sell the war.
We are pleased to invite chapter proposals for this edited volume,
which examines how contemporary wars are justified, contested and sold
to the public through political and media discourse. We are collecting
abstracts to prepare a full book proposal for submission to a renowned
international academic publisher.
We welcome contributions from critical discourse studies and related
fields, including rhetoric and argumentation, corpus-assisted
discourse studies, cognitive and multimodal approaches, metaphor and
framing analysis, and cross-cultural studies. Analyses of
under-examined conflicts and non-Western discourses are particularly
welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Legitimisation and delegitimisation of war
- Self and Other representation and national identity
- Fear, securitisation and the politics of emergency
- Agency, responsibility and claims of provocation
- Metaphor, narrative and framing in war discourse
- News reporting and the representation of victims
- Social media, AI-generated content and deepfakes
- Fact-checking, counter-propaganda and dissent
- Discourses of ceasefire, negotiation and peace
Abstracts: up to 500 words (including references), outlining the
research problem, objectives, methodology and research questions.
Important dates
- Abstract submission: 25 November 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2026
- Full chapter submission: 30 March 2027
Submit your abstract here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHNSE6N4m-KFFCudSsIz2f7U1bTBox7vDw2mbGDZV5rnxk5A/viewform
Please feel free to share this call with colleagues and networks who
may be interested.

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2026

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)




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